...Thanks for the tip, Mia Trost! Will be looking forward to it.

...Hello noses! My mother-in-law had a perfume called "Fendi by Fendi" and she asked me to find something alike or similar. Since I have no clue how that smelt like, I will have to ask you, the bearers of magnificent wisdom, Parfumo forum users - what would be a good fragrance for her? She keeps telling me "I don't like smelling like flowers, I guess I like more masculine scents" and was genuinely shocked by the notes listed here on Parfumo. "So many flowers!!!" ("My life is a lie!" Etc) ;-pI plan to give her a set of testers and decants for her 65 birthday, so she can try to find her old/new friend "Fendi" . She is such a lovely person and I hope I could find her something she likes. So, what do you think? Any suggestions?Anything, even vague resemblance are very welcome too.Much love! FemboEdit:I found out that she is currently using and enjoys okay is "Naomi Campbell" and the notes listed that correspond to Fendi are-Top: Bergamot, Mandarin-Heart: Jasmine, lily of the valley, rose-Base: Amber, Tonka bean, Musk, sandelwood, vanilla, ceder.And "spices" vs pink pepper.

...Hello Parfumo!After more then 10 years of interest of smells I still can't describe a scent very good (and in another language than my own, goodness). But I aim to try and learn.I am from and live in Sweden. A mostly cold climate, with a people not caring much for perfume at all (as someone mentioned earlier in this thread). Wearing an edp is quite daring (yes how dare I...!) so, if any, people go for a discreet edt's. Thanks to brands like CLEAN more and more have begun to take interest in how they smell and actually find their way to Other Brands. My closest friends have just started "opening up their noses" for fragrance and see me as their go-to smeller.I have an excellent sense of smell. Too excellent if you ask me. My partner on the other hand says "I was bred fir beauty, not a sense of smell" ... they vaguely sense anything. Perfect combo, right?When I was growing up we didn't really have fragrance in the house at all. My father smelly of beer, manly sweat and snus (nordic tobacco) and mother smelt like a smoking person smoking. (I have my father's genes when it comes to body odour, so I sometimes refer to myself as a "spice girl".) Perfume still feels kind of new to me like that. I hope that feeling never goes out. Due to my strong own natural aroma, my partner adores me (they CAN smell me at times and they're so happy for it). But it also "eats" a lot of fragrances I wear. A good longevity perfume probably vanishes on me rather quickly, especially aquatic and fresh stuff (the aromas I currently just love).I live in a house in a green suburban area, we have foxes and deers running around, 5 minute walk to either lake or sea. It's wonderful. I walk my Swedish vallhund at night, just smelling the nature in different seasons and weathers.I have a syndrome called E.D.S. which makes me a little too impaired at times, perfume is a good way of exploring new places without leaving bed. A blessing in many ways.Oh! And I have a child that just turned 2. If he doesn't like a perfume I wear it's either swapped, sold, given away (we live in a small space so I can just have as many bottles that fits). Ok, some I keep because of *yum* but they are stashed away for "mommy's not home tonight"-occasions...I am musician/sound engineer by trade, the one sitting in the studio with headphones behind a mixer board - and I find music and fragrance rather the same. Music make you feek stronger, more relaxed, more sexy, refreshed, concentrated.. or just noise in the background because it's pleasant. Or takes you back to that memory of *blank*. And fragrances has a composition, a riff, a beat, an ambient, a harmony (or disharmony). I feel like that toward fragrance and music, every note has its moment (pun intended).Sorry for the long text. I just thought it was time I said hello to this wonderful community I joined. Seems like a happy place for people like me.I am always looking for something new to sniff, give a holler if you have any thoughts about swaps .. or just thoughts :) I would love to get some online nose-friends!

...Zmajecar:Which do you prefer? I am 22 yo, law student.Would you recommend anything else? Please skip DH and Sauvage, they are not for me :)I am new here too, hi! :). I am far from an expert in this field of scents but I have a few questions you maybe should ask yourself::?: How does the perfumes make you feel? Are there any differences in that area? Maybe one makes you feel more competent and the other more sexy? Or any other adjective.:?: What do you see yourself doing in these scents? Staying at home, partying, sleeping, flirting, walk the dog, working out at the gym. . Go to a wedding? Do they fit these?:?: And - how is the weather where you live? Perfume really changes with climate.I know I didn't give you answers but perhaps you can give them yourself. Please share how you think, I am so curious!Best of luck!